In May 2008, the fourth session of training course for Special Needs Online Operation System was held in Chongqing, Yunnan and Guangxi. Altogether 105 relevant staff members and directors from 14 welfare institutions in Chongqing, 21 institutions in Yunnan and 29 institutions in Guangxi took part in the training. Officials in charge of inter-country adoption affairs from departments of civil affairs of the three provinces and Director-General Lu Ying and Deputy Director-General Zhang Zhong from China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) were present and addressed the training course.

The training course focused on usage and hand-on practice of the online operation system for special needs children. The installation and use of scanning machines as well as editing of scanned photos were also taught to the students. They learned the installation and connection of scanning machines, configuration of parameters on the machines and ways to modify scanned pictures with ACDSee software. They also learnt the steps in operations of the online system, input of information, submission and review of documents, etc. and experienced the convenience, transparency and efficiency brought by the system in inter-country adoption.

During the training, the magnitude 8.0 earthquake hit Wenchuan in Sichuan Province. Departments of civil affairs in Chongqing, Yunnan and Guangxi have done a lot in the preparation and arrangement of this training course although they were occupied with the disaster-relief operation. Hereby we would like to convey our sincere gratitude for their work. Also in the training, CCAA dispatched in advance 22 sets of equipment to social welfare institutions taking part in the training, including computers, scanning machines and digital cameras, etc. donated by US ASG Co. and Family Arthur and Carole Allen. We would like to thank US Children’s Hope International, ASG Co. and Arthur and Carole Allen for their great support to children’s welfare of China!